William Henry Harrison, governor of Indiana Territory and commander-in-chief of the militia, took command of regular troops under Colonel John P. Boyd, the garrison at Fort Knox, and detachments of militia, infantry, and dragoons for a military expedition in 1811. At Vincennes, preparations went forward for a campaign against Indians, and on October 8, 1811, Mrs. Lydia Bacon described Harrison as equipped for the march in a fringed calico hunting shirt and round beaver hat with a large ostrich feather. Born in 1773, the son of Benjamin Harrison, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and governor of Virginia, Harrison served in the army from 1791 to 1798 and became governor of Indiana Territory in 1800. His aggressive land acquisition treaties angered Tecumseh and his followers. In the fall of 1811, while Tecumseh was in the South recruiting tribes to his cause, Harrison marched north to disperse increasingly hostile Indians at Prophet's Town on the Tippecanoe River. He was later elected President largely because of his reputation from the Battle of Tippecanoe and the War of 1812, and the campaign slogan “Tippecanoe and Tyler too” helped carry Harrison and John Tyler to victory in 1840. Harrison died in 1841 after only one month in office.